Spoilers Star Trek: Picard 3x02 - "Disengage"

[cooleddie74]

Look, I'm a canon, details and continuity freak and I don't care if this gets explained.

 

[Richard S. Ta]

Int. Titan Ready Room. Jack and Picard are sitting at a table, finally able to have the discussion they need.

PICARD: So Jack, one thing is bothering me... Why do you look so fucking old?

 

[Nerys Myk]

Int. Titan Ready Room. Jack and Picard are sitting at a table, finally able to have the discussion they need.

PICARD: So Jack, one thing is bothering me... Why do you look so fucking old?

Jack whips out a pack of cigarettes and a bottle of whiskey. Lights up and takes a swig.
JACK: No idea, man.

 

[Tosk]

Soap opera aging rules have applied to the children of Star Trek characters ever since Alexander Rozhenko and Molly O'Brien.

And Raffi's grand-daughter seems to be doing it too. It's a TV tradition.

 

[Nerys Myk]

And Raffi's grand-daughter seems to be doing it too. It's a TV tradition.

She's not that much older than she should be. Not the 10 year old that some one suggested

 

[Noname Given]

Int. Titan Ready Room. Jack and Picard are sitting at a table, finally able to have the discussion they need.

PICARD: So Jack, one thing is bothering me... Why do you look so fucking old?

JACK: "Mum told me there would be a trade off... something about my father's genes; and either I undurgo a procedure she designed that ended up with me looking like this, or else I would have been completely bald-headed at 18..."

 

[Tosk]

She's not that much older than she should be. Not the 10 year old that some one suggested

Maybe I'm not a good judge of kid's ages, but she didn't look under two to me.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Maybe I'm not a good judge of kid's ages, but she didn't look under two to me.

Over two for sure.

 

[TRON JA307020]

Int. Titan Ready Room. Jack and Picard are sitting at a table, finally able to have the discussion they need.

PICARD: So Jack, one thing is bothering me... Why do you look so fucking old?

It's the lighting on these ships. It's so dark it makes me look older new found dad captain picard.

 

[Nerys Myk]

It's the lighting on these ships. It's so dark it makes me look older new found dad captain picard.

Picard: I was hoping the opposite might be true.

 

[The Old Mixer]

Maybe Jack gained some years hanging around with his brother.

 

[saddestmoon]

Just watched this ep: gave it an 8.

Plot thickening…

 

[thribs]

I don’t know if I would have made Worf’s hair that white. Klingons have longer lifespans than humans and so he would be only in his late 40’s comparison wise

 

[137th Gebirg]

Humans prematurely bald and/or turn white. Why not any others like Klingons or Romulans?

 

[bookworm8571]

She can probably recreate the sperm if needed.

I doubt it. I also doubt that it would be legal, given Federation laws about genetic engineering and the need for consent to be obtained for such things. But, since Picard is the biological father, she clearly did not. Her dead husband is neither the legal nor the biological father.

 

[bookworm8571]

YES.

Re: her explaining to do... wondering if the last time Picard saw her (which he references in Ep01 and said it wasn't left on the best of terms) will come up again and explain it. Maybe she asked him to quit Starfleet and move to the suburbs and start a family with her and he said no, I'm over that. I like Jack a lot but I can't fathom how they're going to sell this.

Also, I've now read two reviews where the reviewers think that Jack didn't know Picard was his father until Picard said it over comms. That wasn't the impression I got at ALL- Jack clearly knew a lot about Picard (comments about his rank, his vineyard) , his sincere "well it was nice meeting you" when he thought they were going to die, the uncomfortableness with the "who's your father" conversation. Am I seeing something that's not there? My assumption is that Bev told Jack everything and Jack knew exactly who Picard was.

Reading the subtext, I assume he does. I also assume from the look on his face that Picard had a pretty good inkling by the time he demanded “Who was your father?” and Jack knew that he knew and resented it when he fired back “I never had one!” Looking back at “Tapestry,” Jack actually is strikingly like the young Picard in personality and even looks. Circumstances have also made him as loyal to his mom as Picard was to his. I’m not sure what Beverly told Jack to keep him from wanting to look Picard up himself.

 

[Farscape One]

I don’t know if I would have made Worf’s hair that white. Klingons have longer lifespans than humans and so he would be only in his late 40’s comparison wise

Humans prematurely bald and/or turn white. Why not any others like Klingons or Romulans?

I agree that is it odd Worf would be that gray so young, considering all the older, middle-aged, and young Klingons we have seen.

However, given Worf's Starfleet career, it's entirely possible he went through a situation like Teal'c did at the end the STARGATE SG-1 finale... a time dilation field where he aged decades in a few seconds. (Really, decades passed when the Odyssey was in a subspace field that stopped time, and by the time Carter figured out how to get back, someone had to go back and change things and only Teal'c, with his lifespan of almost double that of humans, was the logical choice. He kept his gray streak of hair, though.)

Or some other weird scenario. Remember the mantra...

"Weird is part of the job."
Janeway, "DEADLOCK"

 

[Anduinel]

The sons of Mogh have those silver fox genes.

 

[Weyoun 251]

I know it's being more than a bit pedantic, but technically Admiral Picard's son
is Jack Crusher Jr.
If he is going by Crusher rather than Picard on his birth certificate.

British accent though therefore you don't need the "Jr" as it is an American convention to do so.

 

[JoeZhang]

Yeah - he would have been beaten regularly in any British school if he had Jr. In his name.